Baseball isn’t back — but I am

This may be the season that wasn’t. I’m writing this post as I conclude Week 6 of working from home during the coronavirus outbreak. Major league baseball has been postponed while most Americans and millions of others around the world are experiencing the strange sensations (or lack thereof) of social distancing. A decade ago when […]

Buckets full of spam, and a plug for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance

A curious thing has happened to Ye Olde Ball Caps Blog in recent months: my traffic has dropped off for no discernible reason and yet the amount of spam the blog receives has proliferated. Fortunately, our friends at WordPress have a really good spam filter that catches just about all the stuff that doesn’t belong. […]

Wowed by the new WordPress iPad blog display

I use the WordPress platform to write this blog, and the other night in my preferences I activated a new option that changes the way the blog appears on iPads. Last night I finally got a chance to see the results, and wow! The display is similar to Flipboard, an iPad app that takes Facebook, […]

Don’t knock the Rock: An update

One of the joys of blogging is when a post triggers a reaction in someone or enables you to learn something new. My recent post on the 50th anniversary of Rock Colavito’s four-homer game brought a comment in from someone who runs the Rocky Colavito fan site. There you’ll find a link to a petition […]